I had an auto-discarder plugin for Chrome to a similar effect. I also tried switching to Firefox, which also improved matters somewhat. I don't think I'd have s

I had an auto-discarder plugin for Chrome to a similar effect. I also tried switching to Firefox, which also improved matters somewhat. I don't think I'd have survived at all with a 8GB device at all otherwise! However, doing something as basic as loading up a large Java project (like Kafka) in Intellij would cause the the laptop to die a horrible death when it tried to resolve the Maven dependencies.